What will you be doing on election night?

[RunOfTheMillDemocrat]

I suspect a close election again. Another nail biter.

What will you be doing on election night in November?

For the sake of this message, let's assume Kerry wins!

[matcom]

1. drinking

either to burry my sorrow and pain or in triumphent, drunken jubilation

[RunOfTheMillDemocrat]

4. Think jubilation!

[livetohike]

45. Plan to be

working at the county Dem. party headquarters and celebrating Kerry's win with everyone else.

[ikojo]

2. I don't know what I'll be doing on election night but a

co-worker and I have agreed to both take the day after off. We figure we might need it to

1. Celebrate
2. Cry together.


I hope we get to celebrate!!! That wont happen without hard work though.

[southerngirlwriter]

3. Listening to NPR and hitting "reload" a lot

Then I will pray without ceasing until he's actually inaugurated. I have no difficulty believing that the * misadministration might do something that makes it impossible for him to be inaugurated. What? I have no idea and don't want to say what my imagination comes up with. :scared:

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

5. Probably staying right here and reading the returns....

...this is probably the best place to be on election night....both for the triumph & the sorrow...lots of popping of corks or <[[[[[[ hugs >]]]]]]], depending on how it goes.

[solinvictus]

6. Watching and Waiting

Additionally, making certain the house is ready for some sort of domestic unrest. With Bush in office, you never know.

[brainshrub]

7. I have already asked for Wednesday off from work

I will be either parting or sobbing by the end of the night.

[iamjoy]

14. Really? I'm Going To Try to Get Tuesday Off

To volunteer to go into African American neighborhoods and drive people to the polls so Jeb (I'm in Florida) can't send the police out to stop potential voters for DWB.

Anyway, then I will try to listen to returns on Air America radio (over the Internet) while surfing DU of course!

If Bush steals it again, I will probably call in sick on Wednesday.

[brainshrub]

26. If Bush steals the election

I'm makeing a trip to DC the following weekend. (The first weekend, I'll wait as the votes get confirmed and more information gets processed.)

[liberalnurse]

8. I will be taking folks to their voting polls all day long!.

Getting out the vote....making it an adventure of sorts..

[RunOfTheMillDemocrat]

15. That's probably what I'll be doing till the polls close

[Streetdoc270]

9. Doing Tequila shots....

One for every state Kerry wins!!!! (got 50 shot glasses lined up!)


seriously, probably at the county courthouse or party HQ working on result postings

[RunOfTheMillDemocrat]

11. Ouch!

Kerry is guaranteed to win more shots than I could handle!

I don't get along well with Tequila. Barf!

[liberalnurse]

21. Honestly, so far,,,folks are not listening

to the facts of *bush's failure....they only hear the propaganda. I expect *bush will win....I don't see Kerry making a national impact yet. I wish it were different but I don't see an upsurg yet. *bush has taken some heat but the issues are rolling off his back....That is what scares me!

I hope Kerry begins to play his cards.

[rbnyc]

10. Working at the community center...

...which is a polling place. We'll have a big screen TV set up in the lobby to watch results come in. Then I'll be partying or calling my therapist on her cell phone, depending.

Let's think party!

:party:

[RunOfTheMillDemocrat]

13. Remind me to have a therapist on hand, just in case.

I think I will just explode if Kerry wins this. I know he can, but I'll explode anyway!!

:party::party::party::party::party:

[eyesroll]

12. I'll be at my congressional district's election-night HQ,

watching returns and hopefully watching Jim Sensenbrenner sweat a bit (on TV). I'm realistic -- I don't think we'll take F. Jim out, but I think it might be a lot closer than anyone expects.

I'm taking Election Day off to do GOTV/whatever else is needed; I'm taking the next day off to recuperate (regardless of who wins).

[RunOfTheMillDemocrat]

17. Taking Wednesday off sounds like a good idea

regardless of how it turns out.

I wish I had done that last time. I didn't sleep all night because the election was up in the air after midnight!

[Ediacara]

16. In a van driving to Denver

Which will be sufficiently nerve-wracking LOL. I don't think the election will be that close, and Kerry will pull out a win pretty early in the evening.

Then I'll be drinking in a bar in celebration :-)

[Tripper11]

18. I have a feeling I may be working.

I just got a job at a TV station in the newsroom so I imagine I would be helping out there with results.

[Bertha Venation]

19. reading a book

I can't stand watching election returns. I would much rather have a leisurely dinner and read for a while before retiring, then wake up on Wednesday to a brand new day.

[Tripper11]

20. And a brand new President....

right? :D

[Bertha Venation]

31. oh, amen, absolutely!

:bounce:

[VelmaD]

22. Well...drinking and then hopefully shagging like crazy...

either a drunken celebratory fuck-a-thon or making terrified love like it's the end of the freakin' world.

[ForrestGump]

33. I like your approach best

Though I'd like to suggest perhaps a goal of one 'special moment' for each state won by the Good Guys. If every DUer shot for that, just imagine the plethora of beneficial vibrations that might radiate outward (perhaps sufficient to realign the planets and cancel Un'Really's Fox show).

Either way, it'll be very intimate, with just the TV to keep me company. :-)

[gpandas]

23. dying if * wins nt

[Rhiannon12866]

24. I have a friend who suggested a party

This would certainly be better than enduring the suspense alone. Remember election night 2000?! What a nightmare! Dan Rather, with his amazing metaphors, and Bob Shieffer, with his advice of bipartisanship that was never followed, and me, with my stomach all tied up in knots. Never again.:shrug:

[kwolf68]

25. Election Night

Watching, praying and drinking some Pinot Grigot

[Lydia Leftcoast]

27. Since I will have been a volunteer working on getting Dems elected

at all levels (as I hope all DUers will be), I expect to be at one or another of the DFL election night gatherings, just as I was at the Portland Democratic gathering on that horrible election night of 2002.

[spt5]

28. heh

biting my nails, this is a very important one

[Deja Q]

29. Drinking booze and possibly looking for male hookers

I refuse to sit at home with trepidation.

And if Kerry loses, I'll then really need to get happy... :eyes:

[JohnKleeb]

30. lol you guys will know where to find me, I will be here

I am too shy and in too much of a republican area. I will be at the inguration no matter what.

[MsSnood]

32. Celebrating, I hope

I know I couldn't stand another month long nail biter like in 2000.

Jeezus God. Don't put me through that again. If Kerry looses, just shoot me in the head and get it over with.

I will truly despair if that idiot gets a second term.

[ConcernedCanuk]

34. Drinking, Praying, "DUing" and watching the tube (returns of course)

[NNadir]

35. After voting for Kerry, maybe working the phones, driving people to

polling places, anything I can.

[Lizz612]

36. Depends on where I am

If I'm down here at college I'll be in a friends room screaming at the TV, followed by jubilation down at Church Point. If I make it up to DC, the screaming at the TV will be followed by much "nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah" ing at the White House. :party:

[Darranar]

37. Shaking with nervousness, hoping for democracy. n/t

[MAlibdem]

38. Watching...maybe at some headquarters somewhere...

Maybe in my dorm. Dunno...gonna be a very happy or very sad night. An answer to the question "will I stay or will I fight?" will be existentially thrown on me based on the results. Exciting.

[SarahB]

39. Not much

Sitting here or watch C-Span I suppose. Unless all of the sudden, life gets interesting again, but the chances of that are about as much as zilch.

:argh:

[MsSnood]

40. That might be a good time to have "the talk" with

your 12 year old.

Sorry, I couldn't resist, LOL!

You *could* be doing something else that night too. :)

I'M SORRY! LOL! YOU LEFT ME A STRAIGHT LINE! ROTFL!

[cally]

41. Depends on how close it is

I'll hang at the local Dem headquarters if it's going well. If it's really close, I'll go to bed and wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning and try to figure out what happened. If Kerry wins, I'll start screaming and wake everyone up. If Kerry loses, I'll start throwing things, screaming, and wake everyone up.

[Penndems]

42. Watching the returns with my husband

after spending about 14 hours at my polling area as a Democratic Party Precinct Captain. :)

[Gothic Sponge]

43. one of two things

crying or celebrating.

[Rhiannon12866]

44. Let's hope it's celebrating

I just cannot imagine contemplating the alternative. I would certainly be afraid to come back to DU after this. I cannot imagine my devastation, let alone the fallout on DU.;(

[Commendatori]

46. The first response

took the words out of my mouth.

[supernova]

47. Hope to be at County Dem HQ watching returns

with everyone else. :D